Posted on 06/17/2024 7:57:11 PM PDT by DoodleBob
… Biden’s allies believe that journalists are failing to meet the moment; that they’re falling back on horse-race coverage and ignoring the knock of fascism at America’s door.
Many Biden supporters and campaign staffers have fashioned this argument into a shield against any critical coverage of the president. Like a previous White House occupant raving about “fake” stories, they sometimes behave as if they are the arbiters of what’s newsworthy at all. Sounding a bit like Donald Trump isn’t the only problem with this strategy, though; it’s also highly unlikely to advance the campaign’s larger goal of actually winning the election.
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…The Biden campaign seems to believe that journalists should stop reporting on polls, rallies, and other tentpoles of traditional presidential races, and instead devote their resources to telling Americans that Trump wants to be a dictator, over and over again. If that means ignoring Biden’s missteps and weaknesses, well, the Biden campaign can accept that.
… I asked the Biden campaign about its relationship with the media…: “This election isn’t just about a few minor policy differences—we are running against a guy that has all but promised to erode American democracy, rule as a dictator and strip Americans of their freedom …”
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…Biden staffers clearly believe they have every right to set the agenda of journalistic decision making. As Berner put it, “There’s plenty of work that the White House and the campaign and others do behind the scenes to shape a story, to push back, to have editorial conversations. But when coverage is particularly out of bounds, it’s fair for them to make those criticisms public, because working the refs publicly is an important way of taking that spotlight and turning it around back on them.” That this statement sounded Trumpian seemed lost on her.
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Cna we get someone, ANYONE, at some point, to ask one of these people just what policies, exactly, they are referring to? Just one. Just once.
What will America do when/if Biden wins?
1.) the MSM and big tech are on Biden’s side. Biden gets a favorable spin by the MSM, in some cases major stories that are derogatory are suppressed... You get one sided censorship that benefits the Democrats and Biden. They will make sure he doesn’t fail in the debates.
2.) the government bureaucracy is in support of the Democrats and Biden. The bureaucracy will ensure Trump can’t campaign (BS legal games), and eliminate his foot soldiers (Proud Boys, Oath Takers and one more group), but Biden still has his disruptors, groups that are politically aligned ANTIFA, those behind BLM...
3.) the majority of oligarchs are in Biden’s side. They are the true big spenders on political parties and campaigns. Screw the official numbers, they are meaningless. In the last elections you had pharma throwing huge amounts at Biden, Zuckerberg alone gave >400 million in the 2020 elections, etc.
Biden can literally freeze on stage, incoherently ramble, $hit his pants, get lost on stage and fall down the stairs, and he’ll still get re-elected.
Democracy in the US usually elects the candidate the oligarchs and government bureaucracy wants.
When Biden gets re-elected, that reality (something true for a long time) will simply become a reality to the public which actually thinks they have a true democracy.
The Muslim ban. So un-American!!!!!!!
Back then, it truly was fake news. Now it's just inconvenient news that gets called fake.
Biden will probably pull in about 400 million votes in November once all the plumbing leak votes, virtual votes and imaginary votes are tallied.
He blocked new democrat voters from walking into the USA from Mexico.
The article made me nauseous.
Was it because it was the usual overlong, tendentious Atlantic drivel? So the fascist bastards who rule us dont think that the ongoing media tongue bath is earnest enough,What else is new
POSOTUS, his family and enablers should be in prison at the least. Crimes against the citizens of a Free Republic.
They are desperate to replace Biden, because he will by large margins.
This is the actual scene....the obviously healthy paratrooper vigorously
repacking his parachute, completely oblivious to a babbling Biden.
MSNBC sucked up big time, rushing to defend Biden, blaming the Political Right for using “deceptive videos.” MSBNC fatuously claimed “compassionate” Biden turned away b/c he was “concerned” the paratrooper might have been injured.
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